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TheMopeSquad posted:It's worth a watch just to see Hugh Grant's character. absolutely, and Colin Farrell has a lot of fun there too
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I posted this in the horror thread but I'll post it here too. I watched Broadcast Signal Interruption on Shudder, and really liked it. Its a mystery thriller set in 1999 with some obvious influences from Zodiac, Driver, and The Matrix. It had a very "noir detective story" feel, especially in the score. Probably my favorite thing I've seen on Shudder.
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Id honestly say skip The Gentlemen. Sure Hugh Grant is fun but it kinda blows. Maybe not as much as Wrath of Man, but it's not really worth your time. Kinda wack Joe Carnahan tier poo poo. I'm not sure you need to watch any Ritchie past Revolver (purely for Sweaty Liotta). Maybe RocknRolla is okay? I can't remember.
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May 4, 2022 20:58
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Two things I just finished: Mr. Robot (complete series): I saw the first season back when it was new but never followed up until a friend insisted. It's tough to reconcile because to me the draw of the show is the actual hackers vs. elites plot that drives it forward, so all the stuff with Elliot's internal battle to control multiple personalities just feels like a slog. The twist in S4 is very dumb and bad, but thankfully not enough to ruin the show. I did enjoy that they never switched up doing fun experimental things like the dialogue free-episode, the corny play episode and the TV-obsessed hitman which reality bends around. It never quite reaches the highs of the acoustic Where Is My Mind? scene from S1 but it was still consistently good-to-great up through the finale. Ozarks (final season): loving sucks! A lot of people die and Jason Bateman's character still feels bad about it but who cares? There was never any real tension because when everyone is either working for the cartel or a rival heroin dealer who am I hoping succeeds or fails? Maybe more of it would have been impactful if it was a miniseries but five seasons later it just seems like a bunch of good actors going through the motions.
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May 4, 2022 21:24
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I just finished the first episode of Ozark and it comes across as “Breaking Bad: Republican Edition”.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Id honestly say skip The Gentlemen. Sure Hugh Grant is fun but it kinda blows. Maybe not as much as Wrath of Man, but it's not really worth your time. Kinda wack Joe Carnahan tier poo poo. I'm not sure you need to watch any Ritchie past Revolver (purely for Sweaty Liotta). Maybe RocknRolla is okay? I can't remember. I really enjoyed Wrath of Man but couldn't get through The Gentlemen. I really don't like Guy Ritchie outside of snatch though so I definitely not part of his targeted audience
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May 5, 2022 00:25
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I thought The Gentlemen was straight garbage and turned it off about 20 minutes in. Everything from the writing to the acting to the editing felt an amateurish but in an embarrassing way, like no one involved had any idea what they were doing or what they were supposed to be doing. I chalk that up to incompetent directing, which seems about right for Guy Ritchie.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I just finished the first episode of Ozark and it comes across as “Breaking Bad: Republican Edition”. I got enough of that with the Shield/Wire comparisons.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I just finished the first episode of Ozark and it comes across as “Breaking Bad: Republican Edition”. I'm not quite sure how you're getting that. Like Marty's liberarian speech at the beginning isn't meant to be good any more than Gordon Gecko's speech is. He does the whole diatribe about money being everything, except he immediately loses all of his money and almost gets his whole family killed because he was greedy and loving around with dangerous people and stupid people. I'm watching the final season now, so lol if I don't like where it goes, but the start was pretty good at making Marty a pretty pathetic kind of guy. I really liked the bit of characterization where Marty's true fantasy is picking up a sex worker just so that she could tell him what an awesome man he was and that his wife was entitled and ungrateful and no one understood what a cool, smart, handsome man he was and what he sacrificed. I thought it painted quite the picture. It takes him a bit to go full monster with them but I thought they did an alright job of getting ahead of the Walter White is a sick rear end anti-hero.
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May 5, 2022 01:01
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punk rebel ecks posted:I just finished the first episode of Ozark and it comes across as “Breaking Bad: Republican Edition”. Ozark doesn't fare well dropping at the same time as new BCS episodes.
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Wolfsheim posted:Two things I just finished: absolutely agreed, but boy did every other goon loving love it at the time haha
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Speaking of BCS, just caught ep 1 s 6 and after several years of watching mid-to-good ranging shows, coming back to BCS is jarring with just how incredible it is. The shots are all just mesmerizing. An old, weathered tricycle in a parking lot, the contrast of yellow and black through a hotel room window in rural Mexico, etc etc etc. It really is the most expertly crafted show in history, IMO - from a purely aesthetic perspective, it's basically perfect.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's just a lot of poo poo the Byrdes are juggling all the time it's overwhelming. OMG the ending was so bad
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May 5, 2022 03:40
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Glad I skipped the last season. I went back to KotH this week holy poo poo. It holds up so well dude. You can progress through the 2000s with the show it’s really interesting
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I'm not quite sure how you're getting that. Like Marty's liberarian speech at the beginning isn't meant to be good any more than Gordon Gecko's speech is. He does the whole diatribe about money being everything, except he immediately loses all of his money and almost gets his whole family killed because he was greedy and loving around with dangerous people and stupid people. I'm watching the final season now, so lol if I don't like where it goes, but the start was pretty good at making Marty a pretty pathetic kind of guy. Yeah, I already hate Marty and just finished the first episode. It took me until letting Jane die that I turned on Walter White. mcmagic posted:Ozark doesn't fare well dropping at the same time as new BCS episodes. BCS just has more...characterization and style when you compare the first episodes.
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A MIRACLE posted:Glad I skipped the last season. I went back to KotH this week holy poo poo. It holds up so well dude. You can progress through the 2000s with the show it’s really interesting Even just the second to last season got tiresome. Just a never-ending circle of "The Byrdes have a hot new scheme that could get them out of this mess -> Unforeseen circumstances happen -> Oh no, now they gotta think of another hot new scheme to get them out of this mess", repeat forever.
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Wolfsheim posted:Mr. Robot (complete series): I saw the first season back when it was new but never followed up until a friend insisted. It's tough to reconcile because to me the draw of the show is the actual hackers vs. elites plot that drives it forward, so all the stuff with Elliot's internal battle to control multiple personalities just feels like a slog. The twist in S4 is very dumb and bad, but thankfully not enough to ruin the show. I did enjoy that they never switched up doing fun experimental things like the dialogue free-episode, the corny play episode and the TV-obsessed hitman which reality bends around. It never quite reaches the highs of the acoustic Where Is My Mind? scene from S1 but it was still consistently good-to-great up through the finale. Late to the party, I'm just catching up with Mr Robot and loving it ... but I've only done seasons 1 to 3. It is a show that's not afraid to experiment with things, some great sound design and music, great cinematography. And does things that are just weird and unexplained, just to unsettle you. I'd really like to see what the creator does next. I've been trying and dropping lots of things - there's an infinite choice of series that are just okay, and start to grate after several episodes. Almost everything I've seen could lose about 20% in length and improve.
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nonathlon posted:Late to the party, I'm just catching up with Mr Robot and loving it ... but I've only done seasons 1 to 3. It is a show that's not afraid to experiment with things, some great sound design and music, great cinematography. And does things that are just weird and unexplained, just to unsettle you. I'd really like to see what the creator does next. the thing about the twist in Mr. Robot season 4, is that, no matter what stupid idea you have you could not possibly guess the content and stupidity of the twist like, for real. absolutely nothing in seasons 1-3 even remotely hints at it, and in fact, a lot of things that happen don't even fit with the twist. it's so dumb haha that said i still enjoyed every episode. it's just, man, that twist... it's so bad for those who want to know it turns out that the entire reason Elliott has DID is that his dad molested him. YEP! GREAT, HUH?! and it turns out literally the entire show was in Elliott's head, none of it actually happened. There was no White Rose or Evil Corp or Darlene or ANYTHING. lmao
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Perestroika posted:Even just the second to last season got tiresome. Just a never-ending circle of "The Byrdes have a hot new scheme that could get them out of this mess -> Unforeseen circumstances happen -> Oh no, now they gotta think of another hot new scheme to get them out of this mess", repeat forever. This is pretty much the entire show but they do it well. Jason Bateman is endlessly likeable so that helps.
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precision posted:the thing about the twist in Mr. Robot season 4, is that, no matter what stupid idea you have you could not possibly guess the content and stupidity of the twist lol
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that makes sense because the season where there was civil unrest or whatever seemed like a dream to me. it made no sense. and then the guy just makes himself a computer god or something dumb like that. all my IT friends were jizzing themselves because they used a linux terminal in the show and overlooked how dumb the plot was I guess
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Mr. Robot is best left after the S1 finale with the limo/illuminati mansion meeting.
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precision posted:for those who want to know it turns out that the entire reason Elliott has DID is that his dad molested him. YEP! GREAT, HUH?! and it turns out literally the entire show was in Elliott's head, none of it actually happened. There was no White Rose or Evil Corp or Darlene or ANYTHING. lmao I can't tell if you are joking, or if you are one of those people who genuinely didn't realize that the finale was a two-parter and skipped the final episode. There were several of those in the season 4 thread. For the record, the show is NOT all in Elliot's head. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 18:21 on May 5, 2022 |
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precision posted:the thing about the twist in Mr. Robot season 4, is that, no matter what stupid idea you have you could not possibly guess the content and stupidity of the twist yeah this is wrong
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precision posted:the thing about the twist in Mr. Robot season 4, is that, no matter what stupid idea you have you could not possibly guess the content and stupidity of the twist I stopped watching after the fourth of fifth episode of this show and now I'm glad I did. loving lmao
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how so? i mean i'm exaggerating but that's broadly what happens i would love to be wrong but the entire Mr Robot schism being caused by his dad molesting him is actually the plot of Mr Robot season 4, the last episode doesn't invalidate that at all?
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Gave the first episode of that new Netflix show The Pentaverate a try, basically a comedy about an illuminaty-like secret society with the gimmick that they're genuinely nice and well-meaning. So far it seems... really bad. Perhaps Keegan-Michael Kay will manage to elevate it, but the Michael Myers parts sure are terrible.
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Perestroika posted:Gave the first episode of that new Netflix show The Pentaverate a try, basically a comedy about an illuminaty-like secret society with the gimmick that they're genuinely nice and well-meaning. So far it seems... really bad. Perhaps Keegan-Michael Kay will manage to elevate it, but Michael Myers parts sure are terrible. haha i literally came to post "if you want to kill yourself but can't find a high enough bridge you can try watching more than 10 minutes of Mike Meyers playing 5 different loving people"
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precision posted:how so? i mean i'm exaggerating but that's broadly what happens The part about his dad molesting him is true, but the show was not all in his head. It all really happened. The alternate reality in the final two episodes is merely a mental construct. He comes back to the real world and Darlene in the end. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 5, 2022 |
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precision posted:how so? i mean i'm exaggerating but that's broadly what happens That part is right, but the "literally the entire show was in Elliott's head, none of it actually happened. There was no White Rose or Evil Corp or Darlene or ANYTHING" is 100% wrong-o. IIRC, at the end Darlene even tells him it all happened. The thing that wasn't 'real', though, was the Elliot persona. The Elliot we saw throughout the series was another personality. The hacks, the destruction of E-Corp, White rose's machine, that was all real. The machine didn't work, though. It's a very good show, and fun to re-watch after you know the first reveal isaboo fucked around with this message at 19:09 on May 5, 2022 |
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precision posted:haha i literally came to post "if you want to kill yourself but can't find a high enough bridge you can try watching more than 10 minutes of Mike Meyers playing 5 different loving people" Remember when actors playing multiple characters in a comedy movie was set up to be the hot new thing? What mercifully killed that, was it Adam Sandler's Jack & Jill?
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Wtf I just found out there is a new season of Bosch coming out tomorrow. I thought it was over after the last season.
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isaboo posted:That part is right, but the "literally the entire show was in Elliott's head, none of it actually happened. There was no White Rose or Evil Corp or Darlene or ANYTHING" is 100% wrong-o. IIRC, at the end Darlene even tells him it all happened. The thing that wasn't 'real', though, was the Elliot persona. The Elliot we saw throughout the series was another personality. The hacks, the destruction of E-Corp, White rose's machine, that was all real. The machine didn't work, though. Yeah when I said the twist was bad I meant the child molestation part but its easily ignored because the rest works quite well. Though I did assume the white rose machine did work before it was destroyed, and we just never learned what it actually did. Kind of a good natured last 'gently caress you' to the audience. But yeah they emphatically say "no everything still happened" in the last few minutes of the show just in case you assumed they were pulling something (which that other poster still missed, lol).
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Tainen posted:Wtf I just found out there is a new season of Bosch coming out tomorrow. I thought it was over after the last season. Looks like it is technically a spinoff called Bosch: Legacy
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Tainen posted:Wtf I just found out there is a new season of Bosch coming out tomorrow. I thought it was over after the last season. We will never be rid of Bosch.
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Finished three episodes of “Ozark”. There’s just so many little things that I find watching that just makes me respect the Breaking Bad series so much more. I mean “Ozark” isn’t bad, but it’s just little creases in the show that I notice that BB and BCS iron out. And the fact that the show becomes “very dumb” by the last season doesn’t inspire me to watch more.
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It's like breaking bad light. And I mean that in the best way possible
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I would argue that it doesn't become very dumb so much as by S2 there's this kind of ongoing dumb vibe when you realize there's no rhyme or reason to when or how characters die, not even really an internal logic within the constraints of the show. Things just kind of happen and people react to them.
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I definitely wouldn't have stuck with Ozark if it weren't for Ruth, what a fuckin gently caress great loving performance
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I thought you goons would be all over Outer Range (Prime), but I barely recall it being mentioned in this thread. It’s very good in an Outer Limits/Twilight Zone meets Yellowstone kind of way. Penultimate ep and season 1 finale drop tomorrow.
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